Campus cinephilia in neoliberal South Korea : a different kind of fun / Josie Jung Yeon Sohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sohn, Josie Jung Yeon, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

East Asian popular culture (New York, N.Y.)

East Asian popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Study and teaching (Higher)--Korea (South).

Motion pictures.

Motion picture audiences--Korea (South).

Motion picture audiences.

Neoliberalism--Korea (South).

Neoliberalism.

Motion pictures--Study and teaching (Higher).

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

xx, 209 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

Taking a transnational approach to the study of film culture, this book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean university film club to explore a cosmopolitan cinephile subculture that thrived in an ironic unevenness between the highly nationalistic mood of commercial film culture and the intense neoliberal milieu of the 2000s. As these time-poor students devoted themselves to the study of film that is unlikely to help them in the job market, they experienced what a student described as a different kind of fun, while they appreciated their voracious consumption of international art films as a very private matter at a time of unprecedented boom in the domestic film industry. This unexpectedly vibrant cosmopolitan subculture of student cinephiles in neoliberal South Korea makes the nations film culture more complex and interesting than a simple nationalistic affair. Josie Jung Yeon Sohn is an independent scholar. She received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures with a graduate minor in Cinema Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has taught Korean Studies at the Catholic University of Korea and Monash University, Australia.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. A History of Youth Culture: Politics and Generations in Transition

3. A History of Cinepol: Film Cultures in Transition

4. Seoul: A Cinephile City

5. Privately Worldwide: Film as an Everyday Practice

6. The Bordwell Regime: `A Different Kind of Fun'

7. The Godard Regimen: Film Diet and Affective Cinephilia

8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030951429

3030951421

OCLC:

1314335376

Publisher Number:

99992611658